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A. E. KIPP.

BLANK BOOK.

(No Model.)

Patentd May 1,1888.

WITNESSES:

INVENTOR v AEGIS}??? A UNITED STATES AUGUST E. KIPP, OF DAYTON, oHro,

BLANK PATENT OFFICE.

BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 276,601, dated May 1, 1883.

Application filedJune 21, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUST E. KIPP, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented anew and useful Im provement in, Blank Books, of which the following is a specification.

My invention'relates to the mannerof securing the leaves and it consists in dividing the sheets of paper in two equal or nearly equal parts, and pasting to one part a folded W fly-leaf, so that this folded part shall extend beyond the center of the sheets; then lay onto this the other part; then pierce and sew together; then fold each part on itself, thus bringing the fly-leaves to the outside, the'obrepresent the ends of the folded sheet, which constitute the fly-leaves of the blank book, and to the left the same letters of reference designate the position of the same when folded, as indicated by dotted lines. Theinclosed dotted lines show the folding of the two series of sheets. 0 represents a stout strip of paper pasted to the center of the fly-leaf sheet, for the purpose of strengthening the same at the fold. Vhen the several parts are placed in position, as represented at Fig. I, they are sewed together on the line or, and when folded, as represented by the dotted lines, Fig. I, the leaves are in condition for the attachment of the cover.' Fig. II shows the position of the fly-leaf and the stitching. Thus constructed the whole are firmly stitched together, and,

folding double instead of single, the waste from trimming the edges is less.

Havingfully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a blank book, the divided leaves, laid between which is a folded sheet for fly-leaves, the whole being stitched and folded in the manner substantially as set forth.

AUGUST E. KlPP.

Witnesses:

B. PICKERING, JOHN HANITGH. 

